HTC Desire 820 Review: Specs and Features

At the IFA 2014 a smartphone from HTC desire series was also released, its one of the High-end device of HTC, It has some good specs and features that will attact alot of users, Its the first Android smartphone with 64-bit operating system, It is also equipped with a octa core processor (snapdragon 615), The back camera is of 13 megapixels and the front camera is of 8 megapixels that suite amazing, the screen is this smartphone is also quite big as it is 5.5 inches, All these specs of great smartphone, and its price is almost half as compared to the other smartphone of these specs that are recently released in the market, Whereas HTC desire 820 will cost around 329 Euros in Europe. thats quite cheap for a 5.5 inch smartphone.

HTC desire 820 review was conducted after we saw it IFA 2014, The plastic body doesnot incites the feel of expensive and high end smartphone but it specs says its price as HTC desire 820 is a smartphone whose specs and features say is price. Apart from the body the Desire 820 seemed to be a very reasonable smartphone that has snapdragon 615 in it, No doubt its one of the high end smartphone of HTC series with mid-range price, Also to note is that its screen is of 720 pixels thats fine with a octa-core processor, Although the camera is of 13 pixels but most probably its better than the recent HTC smartphones with ultra-pixels, its good to see that HTC has moved back to Mega-pixels as ultra pixels were not showing the result that HTC claimed, HTC has experimented a lot with the cameras as recently they have released duo camera as well on their phablet.

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The most impressive thing about HTC desire 820 is its front camera, This HTC smartphone is Equipped with a 8 megapixel camera that can be used for taking selfies, and a 8MP camera is able to produce amazing pictures, imagine having it at the front side of your camera for video calls and selfies, Thats a rare thing to see on a mid-budget smartphone, HTC smartphones demand rate is very high in Asian markets and for them they also have released the dual sim smartphones recently and now we HTC desire 820 is said to be in different colours when it will be exported to the Asian markets.

HTC has also mentioned the Dot View case that is specific to 820 and it is said that it will also be released soon, Overall, HTC desire 820 is pretty good smartphone, if you only consider specs while buying smartphone this is the smartphone you should go for, As mentioned before it will make a lot of sound in the markets of Asia.

HTC Desire 820 Specs and Features

GENERAL

Release date

September 2014

Form factor

Touchscreen

Dimensions (mm)

157.70 x 78.74 x 7.74

Weight (g)

155.00

Battery capacity (mAh)

2600

Removable battery

Yes

SAR value

NA

DISPLAY

Screen size (inches)

5.50

Touchscreen

Yes

Touchscreen type

Capacitive

Resolution

720×1280 pixels

Colours

16M

HARDWARE

Processor

1GHz octa-core

Processor make

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615

RAM

2GB

Internal storage

16GB

Expandable storage

Yes

Expandable storage type

microSD

Expandable storage up to (GB)

128

CAMERA

Rear camera

13-megapixel

Flash

Yes

Front camera

8-megapixel

SOFTWARE

Operating System

Android 4.4

Java support

Yes

Browser supports Flash

No

CONNECTIVITY

Wi-Fi

Yes

Wi-Fi standards supported

802.11 a/ b/ g/ n

GPS

Yes

Bluetooth

Yes, v 4.00

NFC

No

Infrared

No

DLNA

Yes

Wi-Fi Direct

No

MHL Out

No

HDMI

No

Headphones

3.5mm

FM

Yes

USB

Micro-USB

Charging via Micro-USB

Yes

Proprietary charging connector

No

Proprietary data connector

Yes

Number of SIMs

2

SIM 1

SIM Type

Nano-SIM

GSM/ CDMA

GSM

3G

Yes

SIM 2

SIM Type

Nano-SIM

GSM/ CDMA

GSM

3G

Yes

SENSORS

Compass/ Magnetometer

Yes

Proximity sensor

Yes

Accelerometer

Yes

Ambient light sensor

Yes

Gyroscope

No

Barometer

No

Temperature sensor

No

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